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How the past of outsourcing and offshoring is the future of post-pandemic remote work : a typology, a model, and a review

Erickson, Christopher L.; Norlander, Peter - 2021

Information and communication technology (ICT) challenges traditional assumptions about the capacity to manage workers beyond organizational and physical boundaries. A typology connects a variety of non-traditional work organizations made possible by ICT, including offshoring, outsourcing,...

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The role of institutions in job teleworkability before and after the Covid-19 pandemic

Norlander, Peter; Erickson, Christopher - 2022

The teleworkability of jobs - whether they can and will be performed remotely - has been increasingly contested in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. To explain which jobs are teleworkable and why, we emphasize the institutional context of a job, including differences among firms, union...

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Wage theft, economic conditions, and market power : the case of H-1B workers

DeVaro, Jed; Norlander, Peter - 2021

This study explores what determines employers' violations of the wage contracts of workers on H-1B temporary work visas, which occur when firms pay those workers below the promised prevailing or "market" wage. A theoretical framework is proposed that predicts more violations during economic...

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Monopsony power and guest worker programs

Gibbons, Eric M.; Greenman, Allie; Norlander, Peter; … - 2019

markets, based on federal merger scrutiny guidelines, and that concentration generally decreases wages. For example, moving … from a market with an HHI of zero to a market comprised of two employers lowers H-1B worker wages approximately 10 percent …, and a pure monopsony (one employer) reduces wages by 13 percent. A simulation shows that wages under pure monopsony could …

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